Bosch (TV Series) Chapter Three: Blue Religion (2015) User Reviews

A True Monster

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 28 October 2016]

Bosch continues his investigation of the young boy found on the hill. After having a fight with his girlfriend over her rash actions, he and his partner go to visit the mother of a young boy who disappear decades ago. He left and never came back. After consulting with his friend in forensics, Harry is assured that this is the boy they found. What's problematic is that he died from blunt force trauma, but it is evident that he had been beaten over and over his whole life. Meanwhile, a guy named Waites is playing head games with the department. He is the man with the van. He confesses to the detectives that he has killed several people, but won't give them names and locations unless they take the death penalty off the table. He also says that the boy on the hill was his first victim. What ensues are political issues and an effort to get Bosch to interrogate the crud. There is little mention in this episode of Harry's verdict in his trial.

An average-quality episode, yet among the best the season has to offer

[yavermbizi · 5/10 · 7 October 2020]

My overall rating of "Bosch"'s Season 1: 4/10

OK, let's get the bad stuff out of the way: continuity is occasionally absent (the bed scene is the worst offender), the dialogues are occasionally bad, the plot is occasionally contrived, and some moments are either illogical or perhaps too American for me to understand (why is it surprising that a lady has lived all her life in one house; why does everybody, both the cops and the family itself, pronounce "Delacroix" as "Delacroy" etc).

With that said, some of the dialogues and scenes are actually fun and capture at least some interest: the development of the serial-killer plotline, the political games etc, so there's that.